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Plot Summary:
Szabolcs plays in a German football team, as does Bernard. They are roommates, best friends, inseparable. A lost match makes him reconsider his life and he goes back to Hungary in hope for more simplicity. Yet his solitude does not last long. Soon after his arrival he meets Áron and a mutual attraction between the two boys develops when suddenly Szabolcs receives an unexpected phone call from Bernard: he has arrived to Hungary.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, lgbt cinema, meditative, cute, tense, atmospheric, touching
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My Last Round (2011)
Plot Summary:
Hugo becomes captivated with Octavio, a middle-aged local boxing champion, but their relationship is tested when Hugo finds a new job in the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Chile, Argentina
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, touching, humorous, semi serious, crying, queer cinema
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Drown (2015)
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Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. When the younger, faster, and fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len’s legendary status starts to crumble. Then Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man. Phil is gay. After the annual awards dinner, Len finds Phil in the Club House locker room and violently attacks him. To Len’s surprise, Phil refuses to rat on Len about the beating. When Phil wins the annual Surf Lifesaving competition, Len’s defeat is final. In an act of revenge, Len gets Phil drunk and subjects him to a series of humiliating acts. But, the hatefulness forces Len to come face to face with a fundamental question: can he accept the truth about his own sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, queer cinema
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The Wound (2017)
Plot Summary:
Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, melancholic, art house, queer cinema, banned
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Futuro Beach (2014)
Plot Summary:
Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, lgbt cinema, meditative, sexual, touching, serious, gloomy
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Amphetamine (2010)
Plot Summary:
Openly gay banker Daniel debates whether to return to Australia or stay in Hong Kong when he meets Kafka, a straight swimming instructor. The young men fall in love, believing that their love can bridge anything, despite their difference in sexuality and Kafka's increasing drug use. Daniel does not regret his love for Kafka, who tries to love him back against his nature. But a flashback memory from Kafka's past makes it difficult for their relationship to work.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological, erotic, lgbt cinema, homoerotic, sincere, serious, crying
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Eyes Wide Open (2009)
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A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in Jerusalem's Orthodox community is respected by friends and family. However, when he hires handsome runaway student Ezri to assist with his business, sexual tensions bristle and the pair cautiously embark on a love affair. Meanwhile, a neighbouring shopkeeper persists in seeing a man of her own choosing, even though she's been promised by her father to another. As forbidden truths come to the fore, these lovers are forced to either confront or relent in the face of a centuries-old religious community, with startling results.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, captivating, lgbt cinema, tense, erotic, homoerotic, powerful, independent film, serious
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Defying Gravity (1997)
Plot Summary:
John Keitel wrote the film based on his personal undergraduate experience and filmed campus footage in the neighborhood and environs surrounding his graduate film school alma mater USC.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, independent film, detective, sexy, queer cinema
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Harvest (2011)
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Breathtaking in its subtle beauty, Harvest is an achingly romantic tale of an innocent but ever increasingly passionate affair that develops between two simple farmhands. Life on a farm is all that sullen teen Marco knows- leading a perfunctory and quiet life of working, going to school and avoiding the advances of girls. However, his self-imposed solitude ends when curly-haired Jakob, rejecting the banking world for farming, arrives to train on the farm. Although initially cautious and tentative with each other, it is soon obvious that the unspoken sexual tension is becoming increasingly hard to resist - something a spontaneous trip to Berlin. Proving that true love can blossom in even the most unlikely of places, Harvest is as rich and rewarding as it is heart-warming.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, lgbt cinema, psychological, captivating, emotional, touching, serious, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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The String (2009)
Plot Summary:
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Tunisia, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, lgbt cinema, sexual, cute, gloomy, crying
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In the Grayscale (2015)
Plot Summary:
Bruno is an architect who has a perfect life: A nice family and a good job. Anyway, Bruno has a deep sense of unease. He decides to leave his wife to be alone and have time to find him self. A business man offers him to build an iconic landmark in Santiago city. Motivated by this professional challenge, Bruno feels he can find a twist in his life by a vocational route. He start working with a young history teacher named Fer (29) who is agile, energetic, captivating and gay. Starts between them an unexpected and intense romance. At this point he must decide his path. The biggest learning: simplicity is the best way to get up again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, captivating, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, queer cinema, gay cinema
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The Last Match (2013)
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Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field at their neighbourhood in Havana. Although obsessed with moneymaking to hold up his baby, teen wife and wife's granma, gambler Reinier always fails in getting the stoke of luck he looks for. At the same time he cannot help being infatuated by Yosvani. Handsome Yosvani will give up his wealthy -and elder- girlfriend whom he hooked to pay him a lavish life in the big city, and the works he makes for her father, a loan thug, so much in love he is with Reinier. But the boys would fight hard to keep this love in the reckless Havana streets.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Cuba
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, touching, serious, homoerotic, erotic, lgbt cinema, cute, humorous, semi serious
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The Blonde One (2019)
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Womanising Juan must quickly find a flatmate after his brother moves out. In moves Gabriel (the blonde of the title), Juan's stoic and very handsome co-worker, who is recently widowed and struggling to support his young daughter. What starts off as a seemingly affable living arrangement soon turns to burgeoning attraction, then full-blown desire.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, disturbing, bleak, erotic, surprise ending, psychological, suspense, lgbt cinema, cute, gay cinema
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4 Moons (2014)
Plot Summary:
Four stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, disturbing, lgbt cinema, queer cinema
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Jess & James (2015)
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Jess is a bohemian youth with secrets to hide from his shrewd parents. James feels trapped living with his irritable mother. After meeting for a sexual encounter, the two young men set off on a spontaneous road trip across rural Argentina to reunite with Jess' estranged brother. On their journey, they confront strange occurrences and engage in a ménage à trois affair that brings them closer. Their newly found affection grows, all while discovering a fresh vision of freedom and happiness. JESS & JAMES is a sexually charged road-trip movie, a love story, and a coming-of-age tale, set against the mythical landscape of the Argentinian Pampas.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, sincere, road movie, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, contemplative, queer cinema
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Beyond the Walls (2012)
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Paulo, a young pianist, meets Ilir, a double-bass player originally from Albania. It's love at first sight. Confronted by Anka, Paulo finds himself out on the street. Despite Ilir's misgivings, Paulo moves in with him. One day, when Paulo promises that he will love Ilir for the rest of his life, Ilir leaves the city and doesn't return. A few days later, Paulo finds out that Ilir is in jail, and the two lovers embark on an heart-breaking relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Canada, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sexual, serious, silent, sexy, queer cinema, gay cinema, silent film
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Mario (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two young gay soccer players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love. In Swiss German.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, sentimental, captivating, touching, psychological, romantic, art house, ambiguous ending, crying, gay cinema
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Boys (2014)
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BOYS tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc. The friendship that develops seems nothing out of the ordinary, but Sieger secretly harbours stronger feelings for Marc. He engages in a lonely struggle with himself when it emerges that Marc is also in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sentimental, lgbt cinema, captivating, disturbing, sexy, independent film, sexual, cute
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The Man I Love (1997)
Plot Summary:
This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the dreadful moment when one comes down to reality and realizes that one's beloved friend has a hard way to go yet. The positive message the film tries to transmit is the somewhat common motto "Live each day of your life as if it were your last.".
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, serious, sentimental, realistic, sexual, allegory, emotional, sexy, gay cinema
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Shelter (2007)
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Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach suddenly finds himself drawn into a relationship he didn't expect.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, sexy, romantic, sweet, sincere, realistic, emotional, lgbt cinema, romantic drama, erotic
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The Falls (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Falls is a feature film about two missionaries that fall in love while on their mission. RJ travels to a small town in Oregon with Elder Merrill to serve their mission and teach the words of Joseph Smith. Living together and sharing the challenge of leaving home, the two men help each other discover their strengths. They share a passion for their faith and learn to express their feelings, risking the only community they have for a forbidden intimacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, captivating, lgbt cinema, psychological, heartbreaking, independent film, humorous, serious, realistic
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Something Must Break (2014)
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When Sebastian meets Andreas for the first time, he knows they belong together. While Sebastian defies gender norms — flouting convention in his androgynous fluidity — straight-identifying Andreas becomes unable to accept his attraction to another man, as their relationship progresses. Struggling with his identity, Sebastian becomes increasingly determined to become “Ellie,” even if it means walking away from Andreas. Something Must Break brims with raw electricity as it explores questions of gender and sexuality with refreshing candor.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, avant garde, depressing, bleak, queer cinema
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Summer Storm (2004)
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Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. They look forward to the upcoming summer camp and the crew competition. Then the gay team from Berlin arrives and Tobi is totally confused. The evening before the races begin, the storm that breaks out is more than meteorlogical.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sexual, light, romantic, sweet, humorous, erotic, realistic, lgbt cinema
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Rock Haven (2007)
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The coastal California community of Rock Haven is the perfect place for cute eighteen-year-old Brady and his loving mother to begin a fresh start. Their mission: to spread the word of the Lord. But while roaming the beach one day, Brady meets Clifford, a young man who is the complete opposite of him: outgoing and athletic as well as incredibly handsome. Their initial encounter stirs up feelings of homo desire that Brady has been suppressing. Once Clifford makes it clear that their attraction is mutual, Brady's conflicting feelings of religious obligation and natural impulse go into overdrive, and the two young men must navigate their confusion, lust and beliefs in order to come to a mutual understanding.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, sensual, realistic, contemplative, sexual, crying, sexy
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Weekend (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, touching, sexy, meditative, art house, romantic, atmospheric, melancholic, lgbt cinema
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Free Fall (2013)
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A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness -- and what it means to fall in love with another man. Torn between his family and his new feelings for Kay, Marc sees his world careening more and more out of control. Suddenly, his life is in free fall and Marc realizes that try as he may, he can't make everyone happy. Least of all, himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: emotional, sexual, disturbing, atmospheric, touching, sincere, lgbt cinema, serious, erotic, sexy
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From Beginning to End (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, sexy, captivating, lgbt cinema, psychological, erotic, sensual, realistic, gloomy
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Being 17 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the beautiful high Pyrenees in south-west France, Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the farming community up in the mountains, nut learns to fight back. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them while his mother is ill in hospital. Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorised him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, disturbing, lgbt cinema, queer cinema
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Just a Question of Love (2000)
Plot Summary:
After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, lgbt cinema, disturbing, sexy, cute, powerful, sexual
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Floating Skyscrapers (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kuba attends an art opening with his girlfriend of two years and bumps into Mikal. The connection between these two young men is instantaneous and intoxicating, and despite opposition from all sides, he allows Mikal into his life. The results go beyond anything he could have imagined. This intimate and bold second feature from Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski captures the often-complicated consequences of finding love where others do not want it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, erotic, bleak, crying, queer cinema
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Center of My World (2016)
Plot Summary:
A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his best friend Kat instead. When he starts to feel attracted to a mysterious new student at school, Phil is plunged into emotional turmoil only exacerbated by the trouble at home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, rough, lgbt cinema, erotic, cute, teen, crying, freeze frame